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Disc 5: Bonus Features

On Set with Raiders of the Lost Ark (New)From Jungle to DesertFrom Adventure to Legend

The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981 documentary previously unavailable on DVD)

The Making of Raiders of the Lost Ark

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Disc 6: Bonus Features

The Making of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (HD) Behind the Scenes

The Stunts of Indiana Jones

The Sound of Indiana Jones

The Music of Indiana Jones

The Light and Magic of Indiana Jones

Raiders: The Melting Face!

Indiana Jones and the Creepy Crawlies (with optional pop-ups)

Travel with Indiana Jones: Locations (with optional pop-ups)

Indy’s Women: The American Film Institute Tribute

Indy’s Friends and Enemies

Iconic Props (Crystal Skull) (HD)

The Effects of Indy (Crystal Skull) (HD)

Adventures in Post Production (Crystal Skull) (HD)

* Bonus features are presented in standard and high definition (as indicated below) in English with English, French, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.

Here is the original press release:Quote: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (June 26, 2012) – In June of 1981 director Steven Spielberg and executive producer George Lucas introduced the world to Indiana Jones when the unforgettable

Raiders of the Lost Ark

debuted in theaters. Exploding to instant acclaim, the film has now been carefully restored, alongside remastered versions of the archaeologist’s other thrilling adventures —

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

,

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

and

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

. Prepare for excitement, adventure and snakes—why did it have to be snakes?—all with pristine picture and sound when

Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures

debuts on Blu-ray September 18, 2012 from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Paramount Home Media Distribution.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

has been meticulously restored with careful attention to preserving the original look, sound and feel of the iconic film. The original negative was first scanned at 4K and then examined frame-by-frame so that any damage could be repaired.

The sound design was similarly preserved using Burtt’s original master mix, which had been archived and unused since 1981. New stereo surrounds were created using the original music tracks and original effects recorded in stereo but used previously only in mono. In addition, the sub bass was redone entirely up to modern specifications and care was taken to improve dialogue and correct small technical flaws to create the most complete and highest quality version of the sound possible while retaining the director’s vision. The result is an impeccable digital restoration that celebrates the film and its place in cinematic history.

The installments in the franchise have won a combined seven Academy Awards®. Relive every heart-pounding thrill like never before as all four films arrive together, for the first time presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio accompanied by a collection of documentaries, interviews, featurettes and new bonus features.

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I wish I could say different, but I'm just not feeling this one. Those extras really are lackluster considering the films themselves deserve so much more. The originals look great on my ATV2 so I'm sticking with those until LucasFilm goes all out.

so i wonder if that "making of crystal skull" is the full 2hr-ish one from its original blu-ray release or just some edited down or smaller version? it looks to have a few things from that movie so it be nice if they ported over most of its extras.

as for the rest, well its much better than what star wars got. star wars came down to 3 80s tv specials and about 2-3hrs (maybe less) of little 2-5min segments. at least this seems to have a lot on each movie. it even seems to have some of the stuff from the bonus disc of the dvd collection. though i imagine its 2hr doc wont be on here but the rest sounds like the featurettes from that disc.

hopefully the "making of" for the first 3 movies aren't cheap little 10min things and are somewhat substantial. i realize with the amount of hours of extras they list they wont be 2hrs each but at least 30-40mins would be nice.

Nightmare wrote: The Star wars one was a light years away compared to see I mean the special features are very week I would say I stick with my dvd set PASS

I mean no commentary not even by Ford that suck

I was surprised nobody mentioned this yet. The features seem VERY weak and small. I mean save for Crystal skull(which obviously already was feature loaded) there just isnt much. Maybe it'll be a case of quality not quantity. I wouldnt mind individual sets but I can wait. Don't get me wrong i'm a fan but not as much as most people, which is fine of course.

thedaz wrote: From the cover, I'm guessing the Blu-ray logo strip will lift off like the Star Wars set. They couldn't possibly design the cover to have his hand permanently obscured like that.

Could they?

Please be a book-style set like the Star Wars and Alien sets. Pretty please.

The logo strip tends to always be a seperate piece these days, though a few early releases had it made on there..very annoying. lol

as for the book style, i'd love that as well but notice that both Alien and Star Wars are Fox..while Indy is not, hopefully its not a Fox only design. unless there's been other releases that used that and werent Fox.

Isn't that just a re-compositing of the original elements to remove the bluescreen outline and change the colour timing a bit to make it blend more with it's environment? I don't see what the fuss is about. I couldn't care less if they remove the reflection from the glass either. But I draw the line in adding CGI Angels of Death, etc.

Wilson Bros wrote: Lucas re-did the shot of the German car going off the cliff. There is a comparison shot available on youtube.

Are you talking about this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sFW8grQtU)...? I didn't know about it, but it's weird; I played it 3 or 4 times and to me it sure looked like identical early 80s opticals on both versions...

Thought your comment was a snarky reference to "Indiana Jones and The Flying Fridge"...

Allow me to be the first in this thread to say that the fourth film isn't nearly as bad as everybody first thought it was. There are huge problems with the film, most notably the swinging on the vines scene, but the small touches make the film rise above such flaws. Such as when Indy is in quicksand, and is quick to pull out a professorial tone to disabuse them of the quicksand theory. It remains the weakest of all the films but its infectious tone and emotional authenticity keep it from being a total failure of a film.

Matt Stilwell wrote: I hope they'll put these out individually. I'm sick and tired of getting complete sets of movies and getting movies I don't want.

it always happens, sometimes you gotta wait a bit but it eventually comes. just read that they're finally releasing the EE of the LOTR movies individually. so its all about patience. its also possible they'll be released at the same time as the box set but i imagine that woulda been announced by now. they probably wanna milk the collection for a while first. of course if there's any kind of "bonus disc of extras" that'll likely stay a boxset exclusive.

A pretty cool piece of artwork, but you have to wonder why Spielberg let them put such an awful picture of his wife on it! Nice to see that Alison Doody's image is fitting with her performace in the movie: she doesn't really register on the cover, either.

WILSON BRO (N)

Yeah, the cover's pretty cool - a nice way of taking the iconic poster image of Harrison Ford from Raiders and incorporating it into something representing the entire saga. It's funny that Belloq - the most iconic villian in the series - doesn't appear to be on the cover.

It'll be interesting to see if Lucas' 2008 CGI meddling with Raiders will be present on this Blu release...